Download or read book Prime Movers written by Rafael Ramírez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the frameworks between customers and suppliers. These frameworks link a customer's own value creating activities to the competencies and resources of the supplying firm(s). Both the short term (financial) and long term (knowledge) benefits to using this approach are discussed.